PhD Thesis
Title: Artificial Intelligence Demystifying the Human in International Humanitarian Law
PhD Supervisor: Andrea Bianchi
Expected completion date: 2025
This research looks at how the 'human' conception of IHL is challenged by the military use of artificial intelligent agents during armed conflicts. Drawing on critical posthumanist scholarship, it aims towards proposing a new framework of thinking the 'human' under IHL.
Profile
Anna Rosalie Greipl is a Research Assistant at the Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (Geneva Academy), where she works for the Disruptive Military Technologies projects. She is also a Ph.D. researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Her doctoral research focuses on the military use of artificial intelligence and its impact on international humanitarian law.
Prior to joining the Geneva Academy, she was a Teaching Assistant at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. She has also worked as a Thematic Legal Advisor on Urban Warfare with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 2018 until 2019. Her previous positions include those of legal associate in the legal division of the ICRC (2017-2018) and intern with the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) in Cameroon (2016-2017).
Anna holds an LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from the Geneva Academy (2018) and an LLM in Law and Politics of International Security from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2016). She has been awarded the 2018 Henry Dunant Research Prize for her Master Thesis on ‘International State Responsibility: The Role of Italy in Outsourcing Migration Management to Libya’.
Research Interests
- International Humanitarian Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- International Human Rights Law
- New Technologies
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES
Anna Rosalie Greipl is a Research Assistant at the Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (Geneva Academy), where she works for the Disruptive Military Technologies projects. She is also a Ph.D. researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Her doctoral research focuses on the military use of artificial intelligence and its impact on international humanitarian law.
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS
Andrea Bianchi and Anna Greipl, “State’s Prevention of Terrorism and the Rule of Law: Challenging the ‘magic’ of Artificial Intelligence (AI)”, International Center for Counter Terrorism, Perspective, 17 November 2022.
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCES
Prior to joining the Geneva Academy, she was a Teaching Assistant at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. She has also worked as a Thematic Legal Advisor on Urban Warfare with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 2018 until 2019. Her previous positions include those of legal associate in the legal division of the ICRC (2017-2018) and intern with the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) in Cameroon (2016-2017).
Fellowships, Grants and Awards
2018 Henry Dunant Research Prize